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I found some really interesting things for you to read and watch today but let’s just do a quick Drumpfistan Detritus Dump first. It’s easy to look at US History and recoil from the dark side with its huge numbers of crimes and cruelties inflicted by ‘White Christian Hegemony’. Andrew Jackson’s removal of hundreds of thousands of indigenous Americans from their Tribal Lands on the Trail of Tears should be forced reading every time we celebrate any holiday like Columbus Day. The contributions of women in this country have long buried, discounted, and discouraged. The absolute impact of how our country was built on the slave trade and on the institution of slavery which has created lasting effects of racism that just do not go away is poorly understood by many Americans. This last year we have learned how vested so many are in the idea of White Christian Male Hegemony that it hurts to watch any action taken by any one in the White House. They will destroy everything to protect it.

Racist and misogynistic attacks by this Administration on two black women US Representatives–Maxine Waters and Frederica Wilson–and a young black gold star widow–Myeshia Johnson–continue to gall. The blatant misogyny and racism and this ongoing dog whistle and bait show provide us a glimpse into minds that obviously believe that some gold star families are more ‘sacred than others.’ This leaves me shocked and deeply saddened. The attacks are also awash with lies and so disrespectful that none of these old, white, ‘Christian’–yes I’ve taken to using ironic quotation marks–men can’t even speak their names correctly if at all.

This is not the power of soft bigotry. This is full on white supremacist mode. No thinking person can deny this.

Trump Jr’s response to Rep Wilson’s critiques of Tea Party conservatism were to attack her appearance & mix her up with another black woman https://t.co/UTRzyej1Vz

The pregnant widow of U.S. Army Sgt. La David Johnson, who was among four U.S. service members killed in Niger earlier this month, expressed a mix of blame and sorrow today on “Good Morning America,” saying she was “very angry” about President Donald Trump‘s condolence phone call and upset because she says he struggled to “remember my husband’s name.”

ABC News chief anchor George Stephanopoulos spoke to Myeshia Johnson, who criticized Trump’s handling of the phone call that started a firestorm of controversy.

While President Donald Trump rattles sabers on Twitter and slams “Rocket Man” Kim Jong Un, there is also a perceptible hardening of tone among senior officials. Military action to halt North Korea’s march to a missile tipped with a nuclear warhead that could hit the US mainland appears to be a growing possibility.

Trump upped the rhetoric another notch in an interview with Fox Business Network broadcast Sunday, in which he said Washington was “so prepared, like you wouldn’t believe” for any contingency with Pyongyang.

“You would be shocked to see how totally prepared we are if we need to be,” Trump said. “Would it be nice not to do that? The answer is yes. Will that happen? Who knows, who knows.”

Trump’s power to shock has been eroded by the extraordinary spectacle of his nine months as President.
Yet it’s still stunning to hear an American President speaking so openly about the possibility of a war, that could, under some scenarios, cause the most devastation of any US conflict, at least since the Vietnam War.

Paleontologists in Germany have discovered 9.7 million-year-old fossilised teeth that a German politician has hailed as potentially “rewriting” human history.

The dental remains were found by scientists sifting through gravel and sand in a former bed of the Rhine river near the town of Eppelsheim.

They resemble those belonging to “Lucy”, a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton of an extinct primate related to humans and found in Ethiopia.

However, they do not resemble those of any other species found in Europe or Asia.

Scientists were so confused by the find they held off from publishing their research for the past year, Deutsche Welle reports.

Herbert Lutz, director at the Mainz Natural History Museum and head of the research team, told local media: “They are clearly ape teeth. Their characteristics resemble African finds that are four to five million years younger than the fossils excavated in Eppelsheim.

“This is a tremendous stroke of luck, but also a great mystery.”

At a press conference announcing the discovery, the mayor of Mainz suggested the find could force scientists to reassess the history of early humans.

Also, go Check out Doug McCash’s tweeter feed for artwork on homes and buildings through out New Orlean’s 7th ward. Doug is an Arts and Entertainment writer at The Times-Picayune. There’s some really fine street art out there.

Funny how no one on the right called out Roy Moore for his cowboy hat and six shooter. I guess cowboy hats are only funny when blacky wears them.

I know I am beating a dead horse when I keep being up Dred Scot. “the vlack man has no rights that the white man is bound by law to respect.”

How many white Gold Star families has Trump gone after?

Why can’t he apologize when all that is being alleged is that he was awkward in his delivery of condolences? Because you will not force him to humble himself to a n****r, ever. He wouldn’t apologize when he smeared the black President and he damn sure won’t apologize to a black woman.

There is no ambiguity here. That is what you are seeing.

Why go into attack mode with such overkill? Because, how dare these black females challenge me! If his white male minions see him back down the sky would fall.

tRump has stated outright that he doesn’t “do” apologies because he’s never wrong. Srsly. He said that.

The fact he’s always into it with POC is notable, though. He can’t help but disrespect POC because he’s a racist piece of trash and when he gets caught doing it he won’t apologize because he doesn’t think he was wrong.

Apparently, there is every possibility we are looking at a mass exodus of Puerto Ricans to the mainland U.S., where, they are free to resettle and VOTE. States like FL, TX and PA could see an influx of Democratic-leaning voters.

I hope the FBI is paying visits to these cretins threatening Rep. Wilson. That is a very serious offense. And I hope that creepy-looking Keevers guy up above is getting his due as well. They’re too stupid to understand the repercussions of posting something like that to the WORLD.

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